# creator
## English
### Alternative forms

* creatour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

creator (plural creators)
* Something or someone which creates or makes something.
    Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
* (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
    Coordinate term: influencer
    creator economy
** 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.
** 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian‎:The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.
* (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
* (sports) A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
** 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎:Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.
** 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie‎:There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.
** 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN‎:As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

#### Usage notes

* Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity. creator is usually used of female creators as well, the feminine forms are rarer.

#### Derived terms

* anticreator
* cocreator
* creatorhood
* creatorless
* creatorlike
* creatorship
* job creator
* miscreator
* noncreator
* subcreator

#### Related terms

* create
* creation
* creational
* creationally
* creationarily
* creationary
* creative
* creatrix
* creature
* procreate
* recreate
* recreation

#### Translations

Afrikaans: skepper (af)
Albanian: krijues (sq) m
Arabic: مُبْدِع m (mubdiʕ)
Armenian: ստեղծող (steġcoġ), արարիչ (araričʻ)
Azerbaijani: yaradan (az), yaradıcı
Belarusian: ствара́льнік m (stvarálʹnik), ствара́льніца f (stvarálʹnica), тварэ́ц m (tvaréc)
Bulgarian: създа́тел (bg) m (sǎzdátel), създа́телка f (sǎzdátelka), творе́ц (bg) m (tvoréc)
Catalan: creador (ca) m, creadora (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 創作者 / 创作者 (zh) (chuàngzuòzhě)
Czech: tvůrce (cs) m, tvůrkyně (cs) f, stvořitel m, stvořitelka f
Danish: skaber c
Dutch: maker (nl) m, maakster (nl) f, schepper (nl) m, schepster f
Egyptian: (jrw)
Esperanto: kreinto, kreintino (female)
Estonian: looja (et)
Finnish: luoja (fi)
French: créateur (fr) m, créatrice (fr) f
Old French: creator m
Galician: creador (gl) m, creadora f
Georgian: შემქმნელი (šemkmneli)
German: Schöpfer (de) m, Schöpferin (de) f, Erschaffer m, Erschafferin f
Greek: δημιουργός (el) m or f (dimiourgós)
Ancient: κτίστης m (ktístēs)
Hebrew: יוצר \ יוֹצֵר (he) m (yotsér), יוצרת \ יוֹצֶרֶת f (yotséret) (God or a human being), בורא \ בּוֹרֵא m (boré) (who creates from nothing; God)
Hindi: निर्माता (hi) m (nirmātā), विधाता (hi) m (vidhātā)
Hungarian: teremtő (hu), alkotó (hu)
Indonesian: kreator (id), pencipta (id)
Ingrian: looja
Italian: creatore (it) m, creatrice f, inventore (it) m, inventrice f, ideatore (it) m, ideatrice (it) f
Japanese: 創造主 (そうぞうしゅ, sōzōshu), 創造者 (ja) (そうぞうしゃ, sōzōsha), クリエイター (ja) (kurieitā), 創作者 (そうさくしゃ, sōsakusha)
Kazakh: жасаушы (jasauşy)
Korean: 창조자(創造者) (ko) (changjoja)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دروستکار (drustkar)
Northern Kurdish: afirîner (ku), çêker (ku)
Kyrgyz: жасоочу (ky) (jasoocu)
Lao: ຜູ້ສ້າງ (phū sāng)
Latin: creātor m, creātrīx f, conditor m, conditrīx f
Latvian: radītājs m
Lithuanian: kūrėjas m, kūrėja f
Macedonian: творец m (tvorec), создател m (sozdatel), создателка f (sozdatelka)
Malayalam: സ്രഷ്ടാവ് (ml) (sraṣṭāvŭ)
Maori: kaihanga, kaiwaihanga (mi), kaiwhaihanga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бүтээгч (mn) (büteegč)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skaper m, opphavsperson m
Nynorsk: skapar m, opphavsperson m
Old English: wyrhta m, wyrhte f
Old Occitan: creator
Persian:
Iranian Persian: آفَرینَنْدِه (âfarinande), سازَنْدِه (sâzande), خالِق (xâleğ)
Plautdietsch: Schepfa m
Polish: twórca (pl) m, twórczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: criador (pt) m, criadora (pt) f
Romanian: creator (ro) m, creatoare (ro) f
Russian: созда́тель (ru) m (sozdátelʹ), созда́тельница (ru) f (sozdátelʹnica), творе́ц (ru) m (tvoréc)
Sanskrit: कर्तृ (sa) m or f or n (kartṛ)
Scots: makar
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тво́рац m, ство̀ритељ m, ства̀ралац m, ствараоц m, ства̀ратељ m, стваратѐљица f
Roman: tvórac (sh) m, stvòritelj (sh) m, stvàralac (sh) m, stvaraoc m, stvàratelj (sh) m, stvaratèljica (sh) f
Shor: пӱдӱрчи (püdürçi)
Slovak: tvorca m, tvorkyňa f, stvoriteľ m, stvoriteľka f
Slovene: ustvarjalec m, ustvarjalka f
Spanish: creador (es) m, creadora (es) f
Swedish: skapare (sv) c, skaperska c (female)
Tajik: офаринанда (ofarinanda), созанда (sozanda)
Thai: ผู้สร้าง (pûu-sâang)
Turkish: yaratıcı (tr)
Ukrainian: творе́ць (uk) m (tvorécʹ), ство́рювач m (stvórjuvač), ство́рювачка f (stvórjuvačka)
Urdu: خالِق m (xāliq)
Uyghur: ياراتقۇچى (yaratquchi)
Uzbek: yaratuvchi (uz), ijodkor (uz)
Vietnamese: người sáng tạo
Volapük: jafan (vo), hijafan (male), jijafan f (female), jafel (older term)
Welsh: crëwr (cy) m
Yiddish: באַשעפֿער m (bashefer), באַשאַפֿער m (bashafer)
Zulu: umenzi class 1/2 :

### See also

* maker

### Anagrams

* Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

## Latin
### Etymology

From creō (“I create, make”) +‎ -tor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kreˈaː.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kreˈa.tor/, [kreˈäːt̪or]

### Noun

creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension
* a creator, author, founder
    Synonyms: conditor, auctor
* a person who elects or appoints to an office
* the creator of the world; God

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* creātrīx

#### Related terms

* creābilis
* creāmen
* creātiō
* creātūra

#### Descendants

* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: criador
** Asturian: criador
** Extremaduran: criaor
** Galician: criador
** Portuguese: criador
** Spanish: criador
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: creatore
** Sicilian: criaturi
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: criador
** Old Franco-Provençal: creares (nominative)
** Old French: criere (nominative)
** Old Occitan: creador
* Borrowed:
** >? Albanian: krijues
** → Aragonese: creyador
** → Asturian: creador
** → Catalan: creador
** → Corsican: creatore
** → English: creator
** → French: créateur
*** → German: Kreateur
*** → Romanian: creator
** → German: Kreator
** → Leonese: creyador
** → Spanish: creador

### Verb

creātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of creō

### References

* “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* creator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* creator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “creator”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1297

## Old French
### Noun

creator oblique singular, m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)
* Alternative form of creatur

## Romanian
### Etymology

From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kre.aˈtor/

### Adjective

creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine and neuter plural creatoare)
* creative

#### Declension
### Noun

creator m (plural creatori)
* creator (person who creates, who founds something)
* (religion) God

#### Declension
### Further reading

* creator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)